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Tasmanian teachers' bank accounts raided

Tasmanian teachers' bank accounts raided By Shayne McCallum HOBART — Outrage has erupted among Tasmanian teachers over revelations by a Tasmanian building society senior executive that money has been deducted from teachers' personal

Protest at Brisbane Women's Prison

Protest at Brisbane Women's Prison By Sylvia Porter BRISBANE — Twenty-five people picketed the Brisbane Women's Prison on March 20, protesting against the imprisonment of women for offences related to domestic violence. The action

Hollywood backlash

Hollywood backlash Scent of a Woman Directed by Martin Brest Written by Bo Goldman With Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell Greater Union Reviewed by Gabrielle Carey I was prejudiced about this film before I even saw it because of

Labor's 'true believers' face disappointment

When Paul Keating thanked the "true believers" in Labor for re-electing his government on March 13, he was met with a wild ovation from the loyal crowd at the Bankstown Leagues Club. But PETER BOYLE asks: what is the worth of his promise to

Protest movements in Australia

Power and Protest: Movements for Social Change in Australian Society By Verity Burgmann Allen and Unwin. 302 pp. $24.95 (pb) Reviewed by Vannessa Hearman Verity Burgmann, co-editor of the four volume A People's History of Australia

Amnesty leader campaigns against death penalty

By Norm Dixon The United States government is "a major and flagrant human rights violator" which is "perpetrating terror on its own citizens" through its frequent use of the death penalty, Rick Halperin, chairperson of Amnesty International

Not a false move

One False Move Directed by Carl Franklin Written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson With Bill Paxton and Lynda Williams Reviewed by Gabrielle Carey This is a powerful movie from a new African American director, Carl Franklin. It's

Delivering

Delivering According to George Campbell, national secretary of the Automotive, Metals and Engineering Union, "we can never again allow the trade union movement to become so weak that large Â鶹´«Ã½ of it are dependent upon a Labor government

Bureaucracy, East and West

Power and Money By Ernest Mandel London: Verso. 251 pp. $34.95 Reviewed by Jason Cheng Readers familiar with Ernest Mandel's incisive and readable work will not be disappointed by Power and Money, in which he presents a Marxist theory

The real issues in Russian crisis

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — "What has occurred has been an attempt to concentrate power fully in the hands of the Soviets, to return the Communist nomenklatura to the levers of government, and to seize back the democratic conquests of August

Peltier frame-up highlighted

Amnesty International is highlighting the case of Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier in this Year of the Indigenous Peoples, AI's US chairperson, Rick Halperin, told Â鶹´«Ã½.

South Africa fuels Rwanda civil war

South Africa fuels Rwanda civil war Copies of two invoices received by the Oslo-based World Campaign Against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa reveal that arms and ammunition worth around US$6 million were sold to the